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MAPS - Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 1993 - From Problem Child to Wonder Child: LSD turns 50 (4253 words) |
 | Albert decided to study chemistry because he was attracted by the miracles of physical matter and the plant world. |
| Albert realized that the animal results were not due to inactivity of the mushroom, but to insensitivity of the animal assay. |
| Albert emphasized Lewin's concept of phantastica drugs "exercising their chemical power on all the senses, but they influence particularly the visual and auditory spheres as well as the general sensibility." These drugs of illusion bring about cerebral excitation in the form of hallucinations and related altered perceptions. |
| DVD Talk > Reviews > The Moon and Sixpence (1330 words) |
| Albert Lewin was both praised and derided as a 'cultured' writer-director in the forties and early fifties. |
| Albert Lewin's sensitive adaptation of Somerset Maugham's 1919 book tells the story of a difficult artist who bears only a superficial resemblance to the life of Paul Gauguin, the famous painter who journeyed to the South Seas. |
| Albert Basserman (Foreign Correspondent) has an unusually proactive role as a doctor of the islands and Elena Verdugo (House of Frankenstein) switches from her usual sultry Gypsy roles to play a dusky tropical naïf: devoted, unspoiled and fully made up by Max Factor. |
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